Marc Buyens
Marc founded Xpragma in 1999 after a 20+ years career in the IT-sector where he held various technical, commercial and management positions in companies such as CIG (later acquired by CSC), Tandem Computers (now: HP) and Candle Corporation (now: IBM).
His current interests focus on the boundary of technological evolution, organisational change and business strategy: a messy world of unfulfilled promises.
Some of Marc's ideas and insights are published via the Xpragmatic View, a regular column on his website, http://www.xpragma.com/, also available as an RSS-feed at http://www.xpragma.com/english/rss/xpven.xml.
MSc - Civil Engineer electromechanics - Catholique University of Leuven (Belgium), MBA - Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School (Belgium).
Private interests: nature, music, literature, travel, philosophy, cosmology, modern art
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Add items shared with you to interest feed
Public Note added by Marc Buyens on 11/30/2008Today, when someone shares an item with you, you get notified via an e-mail message. This is OK. However, in essence, this is no different from adding an item to a twine you did subscribe to. Therefore, I would like to have the option to add the "shared items" feed to my interest feed and daily ...
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Business framework explained - the true version
Public Bookmark added by Marc Buyens on 11/29/2008Business is about process, typically starting with a customer calling, then proceeding through a sequence of tasks and activities ending with the delivery of some value.No process exists unless there is a framework. And for that reason business have a framework, an old and proven one.
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KM vs. Social Media: Beware the Warmongers
Public Bookmark added by Marc Buyens on 11/18/2008In what struck me as a bit of ageist tirade, Venkatesh Rao is trying to instigate a war that does not, and need not, exist. He believes that knowledge management (KM) advocates and social media (SM) advocates are at odds with each other. His often divisive tract imagines a war between KM and SM. ...
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Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War
Public Bookmark added by Marc Buyens on 11/18/2008You'd think Knowledge Management (KM), that venerable IT-based social engineering discipline which came up with evocative phrases like "community of practice," "expertise locater," and "knowledge capture," would be in the vanguard of the 2.0 revolution. You'd be wrong. Inside organizations and ...
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Competitive advantage from better interactions
Public Bookmark added by Marc Buyens on 11/16/2008Tacit interactions are becoming central to economic activity. Making those who undertake them more effective isn't like tweaking a production line.
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Holarchy
Comment added by Marc Buyens on 11/10/2008Very valid points and very visually described. I like the idea of diving managers. Still, nothing blocks them from doing so today. In fact, most of what you describe can also be possible in a traditional hierarchical organisation. Perhaps no natural fit, but still possible and I can even say ... -
Holarchy
Comment added by Marc Buyens on 11/09/2008Interesting questions and the very essence of the twine I started myself on “Organisational change”. Unfortunately, there is no straightforward answer. Rearranging the boxes in a graph is an interesting starting point for discussion, but does not provide a solution. As an example, in your ... -
Bug: twining a twine
Comment added by Marc Buyens on 11/04/2008I do not know whether this is a valid alternative for you, but bookmarking the RSS feed of the twine does seem to work. Of course, clicking this bookmark will not present you the summary page of the twine, but will display its content in the default RSS display form of your browser. Still, ... -
New UI
Comment added by Marc Buyens on 10/16/2008Yes, indeed, I have to agree, some major improvements have been released. For the first time. the interest feed really becomes a useful tool for navigating new content. In addition, as Twain already mentioned, the recommendation engine behaves quite differently now. I cannot judge to what extent ... -
New Note
Comment added by Marc Buyens on 09/18/2008I have installed Chrome on my PC for website testing purposes. Chrome nicely copied all my Firefox bookmarks and also the Twine bookmarklets. Both of them function normally, but I only did a couple of tests. MarcB -
Are My Items meant to be public?
Comment added by Marc Buyens on 09/05/2008You are right. This seems to be OK now. I repeated the test I did earlier and I no longer find any private items when I access my profile page or the My Items list as a non-registered user. Great! MarcB
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